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Considered the first African American woman to publish a novel in English, Harriet E. Adams Wilson (ca. 1827-ca. 1863) is also distinguished as the first black, male or female, to publish a novel in t...
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Harriet E. Adams Wilson is the first African American woman known to have published a novel in English, a fact not acknowledged until the republication in 1983 of her 1859 autobiographical work. Novel...
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Harriet E. Adams Wilson is thought to be the very first Afro-American woman to have published a novel in English. In a period in which racial "firsts" have been heralded loudly and widely, as talisman...
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Harriet E. Wilson was perhaps the first African American to publish a novel in America. In Boston on 5 September 1859 Wilson published Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In a Two-Sto...
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